June 20th, 2025: Cancer Season Begins

• Sun enters Cancer (10:42 pm EDT)

• Mars in Virgo quincunx Neptune in Aries (2 deg)

The summer solstice comes 'round again. The longest day of the year (in the Northern Hemisphere) spotlights home, family, personal history. The Sun applies to a conjunction with Jupiter (exact on Jun 24th) and this will definitely be felt as soon as the Sun makes its ingress.

Sun/Jupiter defines this solstice and Cancer season. At this energetic peak, which will be amplified by Jupiter, watch for family history to bubble up. Watch for a surge of forgotten feelings, nostalgia or a desire to find your home. "Home" is wherever you feel safe - where you can curl up or uncurl. If you did not have a place like this growing up (or even now) the start of this season can trigger a curious, aching longing for what never was. There's even a word for this - anemoia. According to wiktionary, this word was " Coined by American author and neologist John Koenig in 2012...."

You may be flooded with anemoia but Jupiter also adds hope for the future, so there's a layer of "this might yet come true." And it might - Jupiter is all about expansion and potential. While you're saturated with wistfulness for the past, don't forget to look ahead. The solstice reminds us that everything reaches a peak. Things bloom and are to be celebrated. And if that's not happening this season, maybe next season because the wheel turns endlessly. And the wheel might be taking you home.

For now, you can recline on your bed or get outside and toast the rays of the sun or sit in a corner and eat pudding. Whatever you're comfortable with because this is Cancer season, after all. The season of the introvert, the empath, the homebody, the mother, the child, the protector, the caregiver, the cook, the tornado over water. Needs are honoured, above all else. There is no such thing as "too emotional." Feelings are meant to be expressed, to be felt.

Henry Rollins summed up it nicely in this excerpt:

"Someday, I would like to go home. The exact location of this place, I don't know, but someday I would like to go. There would be a pleasing feeling of familiarity and a sense of welcome in everything I saw."

Mars quincunx Neptune plays up the awkward wistfulness. You take aim and miss. Efforts to reach the dream fall short. You try to fix/help/clean and you're undone by something you overlooked. You try to take it easy but the anxiety regarding what you have to do makes it impossible to rest. Similar to June 19th's quincunx to Saturn in Aries, today's aspect is best approached with acceptance. Again, you won't get it perfect so recalibrate your standards. Make space for waning energy. Don't try to force a fix that's not wanted or needed. Don't give up entirely, but recognize when you've done enough.

Taking Mars' quincunxes to Saturn/Neptune as a whole, one might view June 19th to 20th as days of minor sacrifice. Days that reset your ambitions and push you to view your efforts in a different context. You're being put on pause for a reason.

Painting by Abbott Fuller Graves

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